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Historical materialism is the science of Marxism. It's the theory developed by Marx and Engels that explains how human societies develop and change over time based on economic organization. Like Darwi...

17 Dec 20241h 58min

Anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Being Black and fat in our capitalist, white-supremacist, ableist, heteronormative society is to live in a body that is subjected to a form of unique violence marked by...

12 Dec 202451min

This is a free preview of the episode "Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism: An Introduction." You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ups...

10 Dec 202418min

It's been said that "the shortest path to the future is always one through the deepening of the past." But how do we balance the past, present, and future, when all three weigh so heavily on our consc...

3 Dec 20241h 22min

This is a free preview of the episode "Palestine Ep. 14: Decolonial Marxism w/ Patrick Higgins." You can listen to the full episode by subscribing to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/upstream...

26 Nov 202422min

Exhaustion. What a perfect and powerful word to describe our times. Exhausted bodies—over-worked, over-productive, over-stretched. Bodies pushed to their limits, treated like machines whose sole exist...

19 Nov 20241h 34min

This is a free preview of the episode "The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness w/ Da'Shuan Harrison," which will be unlocked in a few weeks. To can get early access to the full episode by subsc...

12 Nov 202418min

Prefigurative politics, building the new within the old, exercising our muscles of collectivity and collaboration—muscles that have grown weak and atrophied under capitalist hegemony—these are all ide...

7 Nov 20242h 8min